How could a civilized slave extrapolate the philosophy of spiritual savages?

It is unwise to pay too much but it is worse to pay too little. When you pay too little you sometimes lose everything because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was supposed to do. The common law of business balance prevents paying a little and getting a lot. It cannot be done. If you deal with the loweste bidder it is well to add something for the risk you run. And if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better.

Consequence is tyrannical to its tyrant.

The emerging picture is one where slavery, oppression and exploitation of society's most vulnerable members have by no means been consigned to the past.

it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant.

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People."

(Canton, OH, Anti-War Speech, June 16, 1918)